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Come As You Are
Rabindranath Tagore - The Gardener : 11
C
ome
as you are; do not loiter over your toilet. If your braided hair has
loosened if the parting of your hair be not straight, if the ribbons of
your bodice be not fastened, do not mind. Come as you are; do not
loiter over your toilet.
Come,
with quick steps over the grass. If the raddle come from your feet
because of the dew, of the rings of bells upon your feet slacken, if
pearls drop out of your chain, do not mind. Come, with quick steps over
the grass.
Do
you see the clouds wrapping the sky? Flocks of cranes fly up from the
further river-bank and fitful gusts of wind rush over the heath. The
anxious cattle run to their stalls in the village. Do you see the
clouds wrapping the sky?
In
vain you light your toilet lamp — it flickers and goes out in the wind.
Who can know that your eyelids have not been touched with lamp- black?
For your eyes are darker than rain-clouds. In vain you light your
toilet lamp — it goes out.
Come
as you are; do not loiter over your toilet. If the wreath is not woven,
who cares; if the wrist-chain had not been linked, let it be. The sky
is overcast with clouds - it is late. Come as you are; do not loiter
over your toilet.
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